Seven days have passed since I decided to start each day with writing.

At least I set a goal of writing for an hour, but this week I managed even to exceed the plan.

All writing was related to my work, there was no freewriting, no dreamy, empty pursuits unrelated to writing. I sat down and wrote prose, worked on what already exists or is planned to be born.

I managed to publish one of the texts. Others are waiting their turn (or will they wait?). Yes, because a convenient format for me at the moment is a photo story

Here I allow myself to not hold back my imagination at the same time and make text more or less attractive to read.

I like both the mood of process and result. I feel like I got a lot more done than I did in the entire previous month. I feel this is becoming a habit little by little.

5 photo stories, one impromptu (about Sam Bennett) and several hours of preparatory work on writing the book. In total, it turned out almost 17 hours in the first week:

Writer's block falls apart in 7 days

As for the blogging hour, I got a little carried away when I said it was actually writing too, because this week I did almost everything but blogged.

I work on the website myself, so all support, development, bug fixes, experiments and improvements are on me. It is unlikely that I will succeed in writing a blog regularly. But this does not mean that my desire to allocate an hour every day is canceled. 

I do other things in addition to direct publications. So, for these seven days, 15 hours were allocated to the blog.

A total of 32 hours suits me perfectly. 

I successfully overcame the so-called writer’s block, now I just have to continue this marathon, not stop. In future posts about this experiment, I may touch a little on the specifics and moods that accompany my sessions.


Volodymyr Zahnybida

Literary and movie critic. Born and raised in Ukraine. Interested in writing all my life, but I began feel myself as a writer only a couple of years ago.
Within my blog, I seek out inspiration, delve into self-discovery, search for answers to questions, and provide responses to current topics.

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." /Franz Kafka/

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